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Show Lack of Understanding Caused Present Shortage, Says Senate Witness WASHINGTON, April 29. Lack of satisfactory understanding between tho publishers and print paper manufacturers manu-facturers was held to be responsible in part for tho present paper shortage by Paul Patterson, one of tho publishers pub-lishers of tho Baltimore Sun, In testimony tes-timony today before the senate manufactures man-ufactures sub-commlttec investigating the paper situation. Ho explained that while there would be no increased in-creased production this year, production produc-tion in 1921 would bo 30,000 tons over that for 1920. Tho present shortage, the witness told the committee, resulted from Increased consumption beyond the capacity of the paper mills. Saying that increased prices for apper wove necessary about threo years ago, ho asserted that tho producers failed to take the publishers Into their confidence confi-dence at that tlmo with tho resuit that an agitation was started against Increased prices and for public control con-trol of the paper Industry. Also the manufacturers, he said, failed to expand ex-pand their plants duo to tho lack of understanding between them and tho publishers. , As a result of this situation, Mr. Patterson said, whon the publishers came to renew their paper contracts this year insufficient paper to meet demands was discovered so that they entered 1920 with a "shortage of paper on every hand." nn |